Collapsible box or package.



WITNESSES A. E. BENDELARI.

GOLLAPSIBLE BOX 0R PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 16. 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912 2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

ATTORNEYS A. E. BENDELARI.

GOLLAPSIBLE BOX 0R PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.16,1011.

Patented Mar. 19,1912.

2 SHEETS-SHE T 2.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PAEENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR E. IBENDELARI, OF J'OPLIN, MISSOURI.

COLLAPSIBLE BOX OR PACKAGE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. BENDE- LARI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Joplin, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented certain Improvements in Collapsible Boxes or Packages, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved collapsible rectangular box or package which shall be particularly adapted for holding and shipping beer-bottles, but

may be used for other analogous purposes. The box is made from a single sheet of paraffined cardboard, the same being adapted to fold in such manner as to provide interior projecting portions that serve as vertical, diagonal partitions that meetat the center of the box chamber and divide the chamber, or interior of the box, into four equal com partments, each of which is adapted to con- Fig. 4 is a tain a bottle.

The details of construction and arrangement of parts are as hereinafterdescribed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved box or package having a portion roken away to show interior construction and the top flaps being open. Fig. 2 is a horizontal central section of the package. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing bottles arranged therein and surrounded by ice. lan view of the blank or sheet of cardboar from which the box or package is formed.

Referring in the first instance to Fig. 4, it

will be seen that two pairs of transverse lines 1, 1, and'2, 2, spaced apart, cross each other at right angles, thus outlining the central rectangular portion or section a which, in practice, constitutes the bottom of the box or package, and also forming rectangular side portions 1) that form the four sides of the boxsee Figs. 1 and 2. There are also four short diagonal lines 3 which radiate from the four junctions of the lines 1, 1, and 2, 2. All the lines 1, 2, 3 are indicated by dots and they constitute lines of fold. Thus the triangular parts 0 on each side of the diagonal lines 3 constitute vertical partitions when the blank is folded into the form indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. In

Specification of Letters Yatent.

Application filed August 16, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Serial No. 644,362.

folding, the triangular parts '0, c, are bent inward on the lines 3, and the body portions 6 being also brought to vertical position in the same operation, the body of the box or package is thus produced in the form shown in Fig. 1. By thus folding inward the integral triangular portions 0, a, triangular vertical partitions are formed which extend to the middle of the chamber of the box and thus divide it into four difi'erent compartments each adapted to receive a beer bottle.

The sections 1) are extended on the four sides of the blank and constructed in such a manner as to form flaps d and e, which do not require further description. The side or body sections 1) are provided wit-h tongues f and slits 9 adapted to receive the same, by which the said sections are held together at the corners, as indicated in Fig. 1.

()ne of each air of the sections a is provided with a a or extension 0 which, when the said sections 0 are folded inwardly to form the diagonal partitions, are adapted to overlap the inner edges of the adjacent sections, as will be understood by reference to Fig. 2. These flaps 0 thus serve to close the openings which would otherwise exist between the sections a that lie in contact.

In general the blank will be parafiined in order to produce a practically water-proof package, that is to say, one adapted for holding ice, so that bottles placed in the box, one between adjacent partitions, as indicated in Fig. 2, may be surrounded by ice, as indicated in Fig. 3. Thus constructed, the box or package is particularly adapted for the use of brewers and also retailers in the sale and shipment of beer-bottles.

What I claim is The improved rectangular collapsible box formed of a pasteboard blank whose adjacent triangular sections c, c, are folded 1n- Ward and thus form vertical triangular sections within the chamber of the box which meet .at the center thereof, the sides of the box having respectively T-shaped tongues and slits adapted to receive the same, the tongues overlapping, as shown and de- 

